#140CharacterOrLess
Microblogging is a new concept of communication.
Made famous by Twitter’s 140 character ‘tweets’,
microblogging forces it’s user to express ideas
with limited space. This concept is part of a
larger desire to simplify communication. Is this
concept making us more productive or just less
expressive? Twitter was launched in 2006 after years
of collaborating on prototypes. This platform was
released around the same time as AOL Messenger, MSN,
MySpace, Facebook, etc. and quickly became the most
popular amongst it’s counterparts.
To explore this concept further I created a Twitter
account acting as my Great Grandfather. I fashioned
this page with the knowledge of my family heritage
and what I have studied about the World Wars. In no
way am I trying to make light of the horrible events
that happened during these wars, I wanted to be as
authentic as possible to my subjects.
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